Share this story On 24 June 2026, the U.S. government signed one of the largest missile-defense checks in its history and handed it to a single company for a single job: build interceptors, and build them faster than America has ever built them before. The award to...
In September 1944, with Allied bombers reducing German cities to rubble and the Luftwaffe haemorrhaging experienced pilots at an unsustainable rate, the Reich Air Ministry issued one of the most desperate specifications in aviation history: design a jet fighter that...
On 15 April 1988, a modified Tupolev Tu-154 airliner took off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airfield with one of its three engines running on liquid hydrogen. It climbed to altitude, flew a circuit, and landed without incident. The aircraft was designated Tu-155, and...
On the night of 11 November 1940, twenty-one Fairey Swordfish biplanes — fabric-covered, open-cockpit torpedo bombers with a top speed of 139 miles per hour — attacked the Italian fleet at anchor in Taranto harbour. When they were done, three battleships were sinking,...
We have written before about the F-8 Crusader’s legendary status as the “Last of the Gunfighters” — the Navy jet that went to war over Vietnam armed primarily with four 20 mm Colt Mk 12 cannon when every other fighter in the fleet was transitioning...
The Germans had a word for it. They always do. When Luftwaffe pilots talked about the Panavia Tornado, they called it the eierlegende Wollmilchsau — the “egg-laying wool-milk pig.” A mythical creature that does everything: lays eggs, produces wool, gives...
On 2 March 2026, two Iranian Su-24 Fencer tactical bombers were hurtling across the Persian Gulf at just 80 feet above the water. Their targets: Al Udeid Air Base — the nerve centre of US military operations in the Middle East — and the Ras Laffan liquefied natural...
Share this story RAND analysis argues that oil shortages alone can grind Russia’s war machine to a halt — just as strikes on fuel infrastructure crippled Nazi Germany in the Second World War. An army that runs out of fuel cannot keep fighting.Michael Bohnert —...
Le Pentagone souhaite déployer 500 drones en essaim. Pas dans un avenir lointain, pas en théorie. Actuellement, la DARPA lance un appel d'offres pour des systèmes de drones autonomes conteneurisés, capables de lancer, récupérer et coordonner des constellations de jusqu'à 500 aéronefs sans pilote depuis….
Share this story On 27 June 2025, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region. When the smoke cleared, four Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers were destroyed on the ground. Four aircraft, gone in a single strike —...
Yesterday, we reported on a remarkable letter from the nation’s Adjutants General to Congress, demanding the Air Force buy at least 72 — and ideally 100 — new fighters per year to prevent the force from shrinking below the threshold needed to fight a major war....
Aucun avion d'entraînement à réaction au monde n'a une influence aussi considérable que l'Aero L-39 Albatros. Plus de 3 000 exemplaires ont été construits. Utilisés par plus de 30 forces aériennes sur les cinq continents. Pilier de la formation des pilotes du Pacte de Varsovie pendant deux décennies, il reste encore aujourd'hui, en 2026, l'appareil qui initie….
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